Two years ago, on the ferry from Split to Hvar, I accosted a very sweet Australian girl until she gave up the location of a cat park in town, which just so happened to be right across from my very favorite cafe, Luka Ice Cream & Cakes. I mean, what coincidence!

These sort of things happen in Split, your favorite cafe with the very best cakes in town just so happens to be across from a gorgeous bougainvillea display and a park where cats like to congregate, like a little hurricane of wonderful things. I hope Split doesn’t ever become like one of those cities where it’s too crowded to move and the government begs tourists to stop coming, because it’d be a shame for this charming of a city to be overrun with crowds or cruise ships.